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Flash Flood Warning 181, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 22, 1997Bandera County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1997, 12:03 AM CDT for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1997, 12:03 AM CDT (05:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1997, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bandera County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2985 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.2
Supercell composite
18.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 11:34 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
1135 PM CST SAT JUN 21 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 0840 AM    POTEET                    TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   ATASCOSA                       WATER OVER ROAD HWY 16 AND
                                          AVE H

0955 AM    GOLDFINCH                 TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   FRIO                           5.50 RAIN

1010 AM    DILLEY                    TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   FRIO                           APARTMENTS EVACUATED. FM
                                          140 CLOSED FROM SAN MIGUEL
                                          CREEK TO FM 172

1030 AM    SAN ANTONIO               TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   BEXAR                          NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED...A
                                          FEW WITH UP TO 3 FEET OF
                                          WATER

1050 AM    SEGUIN                    TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   GUADALUPE                      FM 477 CLOSED

1050 AM    GONZALES                  TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   GONZALES                       WATER OVER HWY 1681...97
                                          AND 80

1200 PM    SAN ANTONIO               TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   BEXAR                          BARRICADES ON BEXAR/WILSON
                                          COUNTY LINE FOR HIGH WATER

1230 PM    KENEDY                    TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   KARNES                         HWY 181 AND 79 CLOSED

1230 PM    YORKTOWN                  TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   DEWITT                         FM 237 CLOSED

1233 PM    WESTHOFF                  TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   DEWITT                         HWY 87N FROM CUERO CLOSED
1245 PM    HONDO                     TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   MEDINA                         HIGHWAY 173 NORTH OF HONDO
                                          CLOSED

0146 PM    SEGUIN                    TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   GUADALUPE                      FM 1447...FREISENHEIM RD
                                          CLOSED. WATER OVER
                                          466...467...530

0230 PM    BANDERA                   TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   BANDERA                        JELLYSTONE TRAILER PARK
                                          FLOODED

0305 PM    FREDERICKSBURG            TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   GILLESPIE                      WALNUT CREEK FLOODING FM
                                          2093

0312 PM    RIO MEDINA                TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   MEDINA                         ROADS CLOSED IN N MEDINA
                                          COUNTY

0340 PM    SAN ANTONIO               TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   BEXAR                          WATER RESCUES IN BEXAR
                                          COUNTY

0425 PM    CUERO                     TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   DEWITT                         SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED OR
                                          FLOODED

0425 PM    CUERO                     TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   DEWITT                         ROADS
                                          1447..237
                                          .87...
                                          952...
                                          682...183...77A...240 ALL
                                          CLOSED OR FLOODED

0425 PM    SEGUIN                    TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   GUADALUPE                      SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED IN
                                          GUADALUPE COUNTY

0550 PM    BANDERA                   TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   BANDERA                        ALMOST ALL COUNTY ROADS
                                          CLOSED

0600 PM    NEW BRAUNFELS             TX   FLOODING
06/21/97   COMAL                          1863 BETWEEN 3009 AND US
                                          281 CLOSED

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKendall60 min
Jun 21, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall60 min
Jun 21, 8:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Kendall4 hr
Jun 21, 8:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr4 hr
Jun 21, 9:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal3 hr
Jun 21, 10:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie4 hr
Jun 22, 12:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real4 hr
Jun 22, 12:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKendall, Kerr7 hr
Jun 22, 2:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBastrop, Burnet, Travis, Williamson6 hr
Jun 22, 2:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real6 hr
Jun 22, 2:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Medina6 hr
Jun 22, 2:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco6 hr
Jun 22, 2:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXUvalde6 hr
Jun 22, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera5 hr
Jun 22, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal5 hr
Jun 22, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie5 hr
Jun 22, 7:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Edwards, Medina, Real, Uvalde4 hr
Jun 22, 7:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBexar, Comal, Kendall4 hr
Jun 22, 7:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr4 hr
Jun 22, 7:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Llano4 hr
Jun 22, 8:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXHays4 hr
Jun 22, 8:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet4 hr
Jun 22, 8:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson3 hr
Jun 22, 11:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Bexar, Medina, Uvalde5 hr
Jun 22, 11:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Llano5 hr
Jun 22, 11:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXComal, Hays5 hr
Jun 22, 11:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBurnet5 hr
Jun 22, 11:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXEdwards, Real5 hr
Jun 22, 11:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson5 hr
Jun 22, 12:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGuadalupe4 hr
Jun 22, 3:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Bexar, Medina3 hr
Jun 22, 3:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBlanco, Comal, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr3 hr
Jun 22, 3:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXGuadalupe, Hays3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.